Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What kind of criminal prosecutions might grow out of the Iran-contra affair? The answer can be found in Title 18, Section 371 of the U.S. Code. In exceptionally sweeping language, that statute declares: "If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose . . . each shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both...
...also noticed some very large dents in the chain-link backstop surrounding the throwing circle. One little error in concentration makes the thrower misjudge his self-made centrifuge and commit an illegal throw...
Militarily, just as Viet Nam revealed the limits of our power to commit American troops to combat, so have the last few years demonstrated the practical limits to military spending. As armaments grow ever costlier, and more and more countries threaten to build their own nuclear weapons, the pressures for more effective cooperation will undoubtedly grow in this domain as well...
...Voltaire once said: "Those who can make us believe absurdities can make us commit atrocities." In foreign affairs, the risk of being misled and manipulated grows especially severe, since foreign affairs are so often conducted in secrecy and have to do with people and events so far removed from our normal lives and everyday experience. Who can possibly overcome such barriers if not alert, educated citizens such as yourselves...
...sense a peripheral or secondary matter. The university is neither a church nor a political party, and those who would turn it into one simply do not belong here. Freedom of speech and discussion is the core of the university, and those who knowingly attack it commit an offense more serious than pyromania or even plagiarism. The only reasonable penalty is separation from the university. It is utterly ridiculous that members of the Harvard community who have willfully violated the free speech of others dare to whine about their own right of free speech when caught and charged with doing...